Game capped at 40 FPS?

Kyosji · December 2014

Curious on this. I brought up a performance question since my new rig is running at the same FPS as my 5 year old rig. Apparently, from what I've heard form other players here on the forums, and a few friends that USED to be able to play at 100+ FPS, they are now only getting 40 FPS. Is there a reason for this? Also, why is the game only able to run with 1 core? I could have sworn that at launch there was multi core support. What's going on?

eventide03b14a_ESO · December 2014

I get about 40FPS normally. It can drop down to 20FPS sometimes in Cyrodiil.

dharbert · December 2014

I always get a laugh from those who post that they play this game with a 16 core 10ghz CPU, 64 GB of RAM and 4 x GTX 8000 GPU's.

I play ESO just fine on a rig that I built 8 years ago. This game does not fully utilize the capabilities of high end CPU's and GPU'S.

xKyrio · December 2014

Was running at 75 fps pretty solid last night on Eu server, besides Cyrodil that is.

Nestor · December 2014

I had the FPS display on until last night. I turned it off for the same reason I don't run an FPS display in any other game. If the game is smooth, then the FPS is high enough.

Besides, lag and most performance issues are not related to the rig you are running the game on, but the servers and the Internet and no FPS meter is going to tell you anything useful surrounding that.

The Latency meter can and that is useful. But it is information you can do very little with anyway. It's not like you can tweak anything and increase your latency. This is assuming of course you have a router that has decent throughput, and you don't have 2 or 3 people in the house streaming HD content while you are trying to play the game. In other words if your using a Linksys WT54 Router or its descendents that is sold in Walmart, Kmart Target Home Depot etc, then get something that actually works.

Ruben · December 2014

I'm almost always at 60fps unless I disable v-sync, then it gets to 100fps. This is on ultra high.

Neizir · December 2014

I have an R9 280, and I can run ESO maxed out at 1080p with a constant 60FPS in PvE, and 30-40FPS in high-volume situations like PvP and raiding.

Kyosji · December 2014

This all just seems odd. It seems I was able to pull more out of the game during the first month than now. Just feels like some weird cap.

Elsonso · December 2014

The real question is not how many FPS you can get out of your graphics card but how many times per second the game actually provides an update to the graphics card for you to see.

Sallington · December 2014

lordrichter wrote: »

The real question is not how many FPS you can get out of your graphics card but how many times per second the game actually provides an update to the graphics card for you to see.

LOLWUT?

And the game is a 100% CPU bottleneck. I can get close to no dips below 60FPS in the wilderness when downsampled from 4k, but large PvP battles in Cyrodil in 1080 get me down to 12-15FPS

Wreuntzylla · December 2014

I generally have 99-100 FPS except in certain areas. For example, drops to ~60 nowadays in the Rift. Overall, I still have decent FPS even running two instances on a 3-4 year old rig.

I had issues with FPS after a particular patch. Read all the support posts and tried all of the suggestions. In the end, I had to change a setting in one of the files. I made a post about it with the details in the support forum.

mandragor1996 · December 2014

I average 60 to 80 frames and rarely go below 40 here.

AlnilamE · December 2014

I average 60FPS when outside Cyrodiil...

Gorthax · December 2014

i run at a steady 80-95 fps everywhere except for cyrodil

Kyosji · December 2014

Well, wondering why the heck thsi build is running low.

Tonnopesce · December 2014

I usually get 75fps in pve(60 in dungeons) and 30 in pvp hig density situation this in ultra hig at 1080p if i switch in medium (usually i do it in pvp i get 40-50fps more)
Dont pretend to run ultra hig in pvp the cpu cant handle it even a 39xx intel drops down with this game, a good solution is to set your cpu at 2 cores and push it to the limit (with mine i can get 60 fps in ultra hig at 5.2 ghz with 2 cores actives and is like 6 years old but i prefer to tune down the graphics settings)

Gorthax · December 2014

Tonnopesceb16_ESO wrote: »

I usually get 75fps in pve(60 in dungeons) and 30 in pvp hig density situation this in ultra hig at 1080p if i switch in medium (usually i do it in pvp i get 40-50fps more)
Dont pretend to run ultra hig in pvp the cpu cant handle it even a 39xx intel drops down with this game, a good solution is to set your cpu at 2 cores and push it to the limit (with mine i can get 60 fps in ultra hig at 5.2 ghz with 2 cores actives and is like 6 years old but i prefer to tune down the graphics settings)

Nailed it! Though I do not use intel I prefer AMD. Love the 8350!

poodlemasterb16_ESO · December 2014

I'm running around at 2560x1600, not quite maxxed out and I'm between 40 - 60 all the time.

Audigy · December 2014

Neizir wrote: »

I have an R9 280, and I can run ESO maxed out at 1080p with a constant 60FPS in PvE, and 30-40FPS in high-volume situations like PvP and raiding.

It would be interesting to know at which settings you play and what CPU you have. Just for comparison as I get about 40 FPS with a 280x and all on ultra which I find pretty poor.

The game is CPU bottle necked so I am curious if you run an I7 that just utilizes better than my i5.